We're proud and honored to work with these Texas ranchers who meet our standards and raise their animals responsibly.

Ranger Cattle Austin, TX

As Joshua Eilers puts it he went from “the battlefield to the cattle field”.

After 4 combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan as a Sergeant with the elite 1st Ranger Battalion, he was wounded by a Taliban grenade and received the Purple Heart. After his military service, he enrolled at the University of Texas majoring in Biology.

Joshua included the idea for raising Wagyu cattle in an Entrepreneur's class and when he presented his business model to a group of actual investors, they recommended that he secure outside financing and start Ranger Cattle. With the military money he saved he bought his first 16 head of cattle. He’s now up to 65 head of Wagyu cattle and one day hopes to be up to 300.

Ranger Cattle Ranch is 3000 acres within the city limits of Austin and as a member of the Homegrown by Heroes coalition it gives him a way to differentiate his products from others in the marketplace. More importantly to Joshua is that he is now in the position to invite other veterans out to the ranch to help with the herd, share stories, enjoy the quiet, open space and use the herd as therapy.

Joshua says “I want to raise them on Austin grass, feed them on Austin grass, have them processed here, sell them to Austin restaurants and have the people of Austin enjoy this tasty and healthy product”.

Never given antibiotics or hormones

Use cutting edge, low stress cattle management techniques

Cattle free to roam 3000 acres to express their natural grazing and social instincts.

Free grazing on Austin grasses and diet supplemented with Non-GMO barley from local Austin breweries.

Ranger Cattle raises their own cattle. They know when they are bred, born, weaned and harvested.

Cobb Creek Hillsboro, TX

Their model has been developed over the last twenty years and allows the birds to be raised in a cleaner, healthier, happier environment. All Cobb Creek Cornish boilers are harvested humanely right on the farm in our state-inspected processing facility.

Each bird is humanely raised and given the continuous opportunity to act on its natural chicken instincts. Their chickens are:

Never given antibiotics, steroids, hormones, or arsenic (completely drug-free)

Brooded out of the weather on deep bedding that provides protection for the new chicks and an environment where they can express their natural chicken behavior

Taken to pasture at three weeks of age and moved daily to a new, fresh pasture

Dean & Peeler's Poth, TX

Dean & Peeler's believes that happy, stress-free cows produce a higher quality product so for 100+ years they have honed their entire system around responsibly raising their animals.

Most cattle operations are disjointed: an animal will exchange hands four to six times before reaching a grocery store, which is difficult on the cattle, creates quality, health and environmental inefficiencies.

Dean and Peeler's Premium Beef is different. From the moment the calves are born their care is carefully controlled and maintained by a team of Dean and Peeler cowboys, veterinarians, and nutritionists. The ranch land, the feedlot and the beef that ends up on your table is all owned, raised, managed and processed by one company which is incredibly rare in the industry.

Dean & Peeler's has honed their craft for over 100 years in the cattle business. Their cattle are:

No added hormones and Antibiotic free.

Herded by real cowboys to implement a low-stress form of cattle management

Hand feed as calves so they get the proper amount of nutrition

Treated according to world famous animal behaviorist Temple Grandin's Livestock Handling System focusing on low stress and humanely-raising practices

Follow a pasture rotation system that provides access to fresh feed, sunshine and allows the cattle to exhibit their natural social patterns while the pasture they just left has a chance to recover.

Smith & Smith Burlington, TX

Smith and Smith is a small family-owned and operated farm in Burlington, TX. After being laid off in 2009, Colby was at a cross-roads in life. His idol and inspiration was his grandfather. His grandfather was a farmer and rancher and told Colby not to become a farmer “because you work seven days a week with no benefits, no retirement.”

But farming is in Colby’s blood so he and his twin brother began their farming operation in 2009. And it’s a true family effort, his wife, his mother, his his sister in law and even his young daughter chip in at the farm and at farmers markets. The 4-legged workers include his dog Ruger who herds the chickens and their Great Pyrenees who guards the hogs and sheep. Colby truly appreciates “knowing what our animals have eaten from the day they are born, on”.

Smith and Smith Farms is also one of the rare farms raising the Heritage Breed Red Wattle Pig. Once thought to be extinct, a dedicated group of hog farmers has come together to keep the breed alive. To be considered a Heritage Breed it must be: a true genetic breed; an endangered breed; a long history in the US; and purebred status.

Smith and Smith’s chickens and hogs have access to more than 50 acres of farmland to socialize and express their natural behaviors and peck, scratch and wallow. Smith and Smith’s hogs and chickens are:

Never given antibiotics, hormones or arsenic.

USDA Inspected

Given only non-GMO feed milled in Texas.

Harvested humanely in small batches at a USDA and State-inspected processing facility.

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